Is there any way I can set up multiple forums within the same domain?
I’m launching a platform that will host multiple products, so I’d like to separate the forums of each product, but preserve the domain.
Thanks!
A couple possibilities I can think of. Depends if the products are actually related / have lots of overlapping users, vs. if they’re e.g. totally separate user groups but the forums just happen to be owned by the same parent company.
If they’re related, could make sense to have each product as a category, and use subcategories under those. Could use category permissions so only certain people see certain top level product categories.
Or if you want them as totally distinct forums, probably best to install each forum on a separate subdomain. You wouldn’t have to buy extra domain names but each forum would be separately installed on a subdomain so you’d have e.g. product1.maindomain.com, product2.maindomain.com, and product3.maindomain.com. You could add some kind of shared menu if you want them separate but still interlinked in some way.
For more specific advice would be good to have more detail on what exactly you’re looking to do in terms of how these forums relate to each other, who the users are, etc.
Hi @bts, thanks for the response.
It’s a gaming platform and we will have different games in different languages, so even though some users could overlap on multiple games, we need features such as the “Latest messages”, “Pin Globally” and “Pin Banner” to be exclusive to the forums themselves.
For example, if game 1 is available in language A and game 2 is available in language B, we don’t want global announcements for game 1 to show up in game 2’s forum as it won’t have any relevancy.
That being the case, would this suggestion be the path?
Or if you want them as totally distinct forums, probably best to install each forum on a separate subdomain. You wouldn’t have to buy extra domain names but each forum would be separately installed on a subdomain so you’d have e.g.
product1.maindomain.com,product2.maindomain.com, andproduct3.maindomain.com. You could add some kind of shared menu if you want them separate but still interlinked in some way.
Do you mean de.yourdomain.com, en.yourdomain.com and so on? (or en.game1.yourdomain.com?) I don’t know how it would even be possible to have forum.yourdomain.com somehow be different if someone is thinking of a different game.
If it’s really language that you care about, you could have one forum and have people join a group to gain access to categories in whatever language (and game) that they like. It’s a bit confusing because they’d have to know to join the right group, but you could conceivably work that out, especially if all categories required group membership. (But if you did that, then Google couldn’t index anything)
We have experience hosting forums for big game franchises and we recommend doing one instance per locale/game.
Eg:
- game1.en.forums.studio.com (Game Franchise 1, English forums)
- game1.es.forums.studio.com (Game Franchise 1, Spanish forums)
- game1.jp.forums.studio.com (Game Franchise 1, Japanese forums)
- game2.en.forums.studio.com (Game Franchise 2, English forums)
- game2.es.forums.studio.com (Game Franchise 2, Spanish forums)
- game1.jp.forums.studio.com (Game Franchise 2, Japanese forums)
That way you can scale instance resources according to how popular is each game in each language.
That is good, but expensive. 
For companies with smaller budgets it might be OK to start with categories for different games, and subcategories for language within the games.
See also Structuring a multilingual community
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- 홈 페이지에 다음을 표시할 수 있는 테마가 있는지: 상위 카테고리(이미지 + 설명 + 상위 5개 하위 카테고리) → 하위 카테고리(이미지 + 설명 + 상위 5개 주제) → 주제 목록
- 동일한 사용자 로그인으로 멀티 사이트를 운영하는 방식:
ParentCategoryA.discourse.example.com상위 카테고리 A에 대해 논의하는 별도 포럼
ParentCategoryB.discourse.example.com상위 카테고리 B에 대해 논의하는 별도 포럼 - 다른 카테고리 목록을 지원하는 포럼 페이지:
discourse.example.com/supercategoryA슈퍼 카테고리 A와 관련된 모든 카테고리가 나열된 페이지
discourse.example.com/supercategoryB슈퍼 카테고리 B와 관련된 모든 카테고리가 나열된 페이지
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